Social environment influences performance in a cognitive task in natural variants of the foraging gene.

In Drosophila melanogaster, natural genetic variation in the foraging gene affects the foraging behaviour of larval and adult flies, larval reward learning, adult visual learning, and adult aversive training tasks. Sitters (for(s)) are more sedentary and aggregate within food patches whereas rovers...

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Main Authors: Nancy R Kohn, Christopher J Reaume, Celine Moreno, James G Burns, Marla B Sokolowski, Frederic Mery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24349049/pdf/?tool=EBI